Trouble opening a recent Pages 5.0 document.
Hello there, any help gratefully accepted.
I've been working on a story in Pages for several months now. I've stored it in iCloud so that I don't have to worry about losing it. Everything's been fine for months. Yesterday, after finishing my work, shut down machine for the evening (normally I leave pages open and just put the mac to sleep each night). This morning, tried to get back to work after restarting machine. Can't find my document in recents in pages. When I navigate to it from a Mavericks tag, all I see is a series of files, (index, data and metadata). Any idea how I can open the original file and get back to work? Thanks, Nye
It's just one of the many, many features that have been eliminated or changed. Leave feedback for the Pages team using the link in the Pages menu.
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